The Rohingya community, many now refugees in Bangladesh, and the ethnic minority IDPs in Rakhine and Chin states, trying to survive an active conflict zone, face tremendous challenges. Following on decades of oppression and deprivation of their human rights, they must contend with daily violence, housing insecurity, and the threat of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The internet shutdowns add fuel to these fires, preventing access to reliable information about how people can keep themselves safe and stopping them from communicating with friends and family. As one Ro Arfat Khan put it, “Risks and sadness has become part of our life. Peace and happiness has gone away from our life.” It is within the power of the Myanmar government to ease the devastating impacts on the affected population, restoring protections for their rights, by lifting the shutdown order, and the Bangladesh government must continue to guarantee network access. As Syedul Mostafa, author of the poem that gave this paper its title, told us, truly, “There is nothing around the world without internet for this digital world. There are everything, where is available internet.” If the internet is not available, these vulnerable communities’ lives and suffering will persist in a perpetual state of lockdown and shutdown. 39